Subject: Re: receiving mail delivery call while in unix/linux talk cmd

From: camera <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 Jan 1997 11:30:29 GMT

In article [email-masked],
	[email-masked] said:
>
>Usually, new mail messages messing up the display are not from Pine
>at 
>all.  They usually come from some mail-checking program.  The most
>common 
>is called Biff.  To disable it, a user should type "biff n" at
>there 
>command line.  Of course, don't type the quotes.  They could add
>this 
>command to there login shells file so that it is always executed
>when 
>they log in.  The name of the file to add the command to is almost
>always 
>either ".profile" or ".login".  You simply edit this file and add
>the 
>"biff n" command.  Also, typing "biff" alone tells you whether it's
>on or 
>not.  Other than that, I don't have any ideas.
>
>--
>Adam Myrow
>
>

Thanks for the fast reply will tell U later if it does the job for us....